eccentricity

Meaning

Noun

  • The quality of being eccentric or odd; any eccentric behaviour.
  • The ratio, constant for any particular conic section, of the distance of a point from the focus to its distance from the directrix.
  • The eccentricity of the conic section (usually an ellipse) defined by the orbit of a given object around a reference object (such as that of a planet around the sun).

Origin

Modern English dictionary

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